[SOLVED] Finding and Replacing unwanted linebreaks?

[scott.stephan]

I'm dealing with a bunch of programs that handle customer data. Usually customers enter their address

 

Tom Smith [LF]

187 Street Road, Apt 2 [LF]

 

But sometimes they kick in a line break and we end up with

Tom Smith [LF]

187 Street Road, [LF]

Apt 2 [LF]

 

In that second example, that second LF is causing all kinds of holy hell with the order management system our warehouse uses. How can I find/replace unwanted line breaks in PHP?

[nbarone]

explode() at the breaks, and if $myExplode[2] is valid, $name = $myExplode[0] and $addr = $myExplode[1] . " " . $myExplode[2]

[scott.stephan]

So, basically

$add_check=explode(\010,$address);
if($add_check[2]){
$address=$add_check[1]." ".$add_check[2];
}

 

? That seems about right. Is it possible to use \010 as an ASCII representation of \LF ? My other problem is how to tell PHP to look for the line break- Do I use \lf or \010 or what?

[nbarone]

a line break is \n

[scott.stephan]

a line break is \n

 

Right, but this SPECIFCALLY an LF linebreak- Do they just all fall under the purview of "\n"?

[scott.stephan]

\n actually just yanks the "n"s. Do I do '\n'?

[nbarone]

use double quotes here

explode("\n",$string);

 

 

input:
John Doe
123 Apple St.
Apt 2
<?php
$expinput = explode("\n",$input);
if(sizeof($expinput) > 2){
    $name = $expinput[0];
    $addr = $expinput[1] . " " . $expinput[2];
} else {
    $name = $expinput[0];
    $addr = $expinput[1];
}
?>